LOUGHBOROUGH Car Club have raced into the summer season with good performances on both a national and local level.

LOUGHBOROUGH Car Club have raced into the summer season with good performances on both a national and local level. The highlight was coming away with two trophies in the Warwickshire Drivers’ Motor Club Autotest.

Both Loughborough’s Lee Valentine and Andrew Egger clocked 14mins 18.3secs over their 18 trials, both driving Novas, the quickest in their class.

It was Lee who was given top billing as he was quicker in the first trial clocking 57.7secs to Andrew’s 61.8secs.

Dave Fox, also in a Nova took the Novice Award after finishing in 15mins 42.7secs, Pat Egger was ninth in class, once again in a Nova while Will Herbert was eighth in his class driving a Sylva Striker.

In the first Autosolo of the season at the Bramcote Barracks, Simon Hill took the honours in his Caterham clocking 2mins 27secs winning class B point eight of a second quicker than Tom Smith’s Fiesta and four seconds quicker than John Fox in a Saxo.

Michael Jordan driving a Golf GTI won Class C and was fourth overall with a time of 2mins 32.9secs just under a second ahead of Ashley Woodward in the MGZS.

Andrew Egger won Loughborough’s own Autotest bringing his Fiat Punto home in Class A in a time of 7mins 15secs from five tests, 2.2secs ahead of Peugeot 205 diesel driver Dave Bastable. Jason Dakin was third overall and first in Class C in an Audi with a time of 7mins 19.9secs while Richard Hill claimed first in Class B and ninth with 8mins 5secs.